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Unmaking love : the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union
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- Summary
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"The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels" --
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- Creator
- Ashley T. Shelden
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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- xi, 186 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780231543156, 0231543158, 9780231178228, 0231178220
- OCLC
- ocn966591003, ocn979575569, ocn950448261
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: unmaking love -- Lesbian fantasy: psychoanalysis, the legacy of modernist love, and Djuna Barnes' Nightwood -- The ends of love: amorous redemption, the passion for negativity, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Hanif Kureishi's intimacy -- Amorous time: nostalgia, temporality, and the pursuit of optimism in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty -- Cosmopolitan love: encountering difference in Hari Kunzru's Transmission and Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled -- Conclusion: "any generic airport thriller": otherness, Cloud atlas, and contemporary literature